An interview with cast members of Macbeth produced by the Maker Theater - Brett Sullivan Santry (Macbeth), Charles Beikert (Duncan) and Katelynn Reist (Lady Macduff). The Pittsburgh Classic Players and The Maker Theater present “The Feel Bad Play of the Holiday Season” at 5950 Ellsworth Avenue through the 19th of December. The podcast includes readings from the play.

Jim Cunningham talks to Three Rivers Young People’s Orchestra Executive Director Lyndsey Nova and Andrew Wickesberg. They talks about their concert on Sunday December 13th at Carnegie Music Hall at 7pm. The Orchestra was conducted by John Wilcox and the Symphonette conducted by Andrew Wickesberg.

Former PSO Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley gives a performance on Monday November 30th at Carnegie Music Hall as part of the Chamber Music Pittsburgh concert series. Jim Cunningham talks to Noah about the concert.

WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham interviews Oscar Swan, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh about his new book Kaleidoscope of Poland published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The book contains over 1000 entries on Polish cultural, historical and political figures. Polish cars, celebrities, film makers, and places all appear along with color photographs. Included are Chopin and his monument in Warsaw’s Lezienki Park, Penderecki, Lutoslawski, Szymanowski, Wanda Landowska, and Roman Polanski. There are cult films including Marek Koterski’s Day of the Wacko, Lech Walesa, Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Kosinski, Marie Curie, the Polish airline LOT, the immense Oliwa organ with moving figures and its own organ festival, zubrowka bison grass vodka, zurek the sour rye bread soup, bagels, pierogis, sausages, and street food. The book is not a list but a personal wise and witty tour of Poland with Oscar Swan’s opinions expressed throughout. Four respected historians vetted the book and it includes a timeline of Polish revolutions, Polish literary figures, rulers, a Polish Pronunciation guide and a foreword by Adam Zamoyski.